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eins ¥ weaneésaa world _waiy magazine, 1:9 07 . His Own Medicine. ‘ By Maurice Ketten. hed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to © ¥ iy Park Row, New York. z JOMEPTL FULITIER, Proc, 1 That 124 Puree ‘J. ANGUE FUAW, tee-7) a oe Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Seco becription Rates to the) » Canada, 9 £ i apnoea ee tha; ONG YOMPe essere: avers 36.18 set yea ti LAST YEAR * THIS YEAR. +29 | One month... i the} for i pre ih -Gen 5, made Jinary ‘nar to the Attor eral. .Aniong other {!: 3. R. Thoms, th: the bank up to its failure, had and Aug 36.tG $2,281.22." }. vs:| Het oF fayS before | fis betwee 1907, Tang-] ! i ing from $125 This is outside of the Philadel | | | | phia “syndicate note or $64,150] : notes of which: Mr, Thomas is! rt, indorser or guarantor. | Stortly before the failure of the Himiltoh Bank Mr. Thomas drew out) personally $65,741.11. This is also exclusive of the loans of Orlando F, Thomas and the Heinze loans. z It is easy to understand from the referee's report why the Hamilton i Bank failed. | ** It is not so easy to understand why District-Aitorney Jerome does ‘not prosecute E, R. Thomas. “~~ It is a misdemeanor under Section 600. of the Penal Code for an officer of a bank “knowingly.to overdraw his account with such bank,’ It is also a misdemeanor for an offices of a bank to receive “any | ‘money, property or thing of value ot of personal advantage for procuring any loan from or the purchase or discount of any paper, note, draft, eheck or bill of exchahge by any such bank * * * or to permit.any person to overdraw any account with such bank.” _ Before Referee Fleming, in the Kelsey investigation, eae i) Hadles an examiner of th: Insurance Department, testified on Nov. connection with th:2 examination of the Provident Savings as een “ ") have-as:e ed fron ofticers of the company that statements havg been made to’them by officers of one of the institutions in which | the funds of the- company Were placed—Q. Was that the Hudson Trust Company? A, Yes, sir (continuing), that there was an agreement made by Mr. Thomas those funds should be left there while the institution chrrigd a personal loan for Mr. Thomas. Of course, in addition to that we found other thi PAA WES anding is that they paid} salary, and there /s nothing to show on the min- ctors regarding that.” | evidence that E.R. Thomas violated Section 36 of provides “officers and directors not to be pects nsactions."" 1 5 the 1 the (If You Have Any Doubt About the Superior Integrity of the Fair Sar Please Note the Acid Test. to Which Mr. Jarr Put Mrs. Jarr’s Honesty By Roy L. McCardell. That's just what I was going to say sald Mra. Jarr. “Look at GET HEY are coins to pur more women ushers in the le thea: " paid Mrs. Jarr, with a note of -riumph in her volce, “since the ones that they have tried) man who worked for the diamond firm and stole diamonds to “ake Naye proved such a success, There, now; you see! |automobiling. Was he a girl? “I pee what?” asked Mr, Jurr, } ok at the girl just thé other day that robbed her firm to xet the money “You see that women are being appreciated more and |.» her tHendx automodiing!”? said Mr. Jarr, ‘Was she a boy?” more every day," sald Mrs, Jayr, ‘It's no wonder that}. » "There ought to be a law againat hiring auvomoblles!” said Mra, women.are preferred In auch places; they are more honest that settled the matter. € than men. You seldom hear o@ women belng arrested for! — **Women #reino] more honest than. men, there aren’’,as many of them: work- robbing’ thelr firms, 1 suppose that's why they are golng|ing, that's all! growled Mr, Jarr. to have women ushers in all the theatres.” | “Well, you show mei saidMes. Jarr. “They are not going vo haye women ushers in all the) That wan the end of the argument for the time belng, but that night Mr. eatres,” aald Mr. Jarr. ‘They have them at the Man-|and Mrs. Jarr went to the heatre. attan Opera-House, and that's _the only place. Further- | Across the aisle from them sai ‘nore, what has thelr honesty todo with It? Wha’ chance} at the back of this woman's dre. j has an usher to embexale from the firm?” |mond horseshoe pin. ‘Tae principle is the same,” said Mrs, Jarr. ‘The lady, feellng a draught, drew a fur scarf around her neck and in so doing mean they can about woindn. years and years for a brass firm and no one ever accused her of stealing a thing.” “That's only one case,’ sald Mr, Jarr. ‘Besides, she had nothing to seal but t of Books she kept. She didn't nandle the brass.” 2 Board of Dire There is fur ues of the that young his frienas | Jarr, as If {the law by having handsomely gowned woman and her eacdnt in a velvet neckband was a very large dia firm in wh je law tat he: viokued! 1} by trans g ‘the bar k accounts of the "Tt Juyt goes to show’ nt Insurance? Ce mpany. fro; Mere ints’ Exchange and Chem-| “It Just goes to show how you women fly off the handle ay every little thing!” | unfaatened the clasp to the pin, which, as she craned around the theacre, worked jedleNatonal Gane ty , i «growled Mr. Jarr, “If you read In the newspapers ubout Mr. Charles Jones, of jis way out of the velvet until It was ready to fall off z y VORA URS: +0) Was an oii sonal advantage Gniitcothe, millionaire oll man, murdering his wife, you look up and say,| That's how Marie Lovewel! lost her diamond pin!" ‘Oh, that must be the John Jones we used to know who‘was in tho milk bust- | I tell ‘the gentleman wich her,"’ suggested Mr. « “You wouldn't get an a1 The fact that one Is named Charles Jones and the other John Jones, and} “You mind your own business!"’ snapped Mra, Jarr. hat the paper will state that Charles Jones was ailxty-seven and had lost a thanks, Besides, she desotves to loso Ht!" Jeg at Gettyaburg, and the John Jones you knew was twenty-two and bad the! , gentleman In front of Mr, Jarr stirred uneasily and sald to the lay with Usual amount of legs, maken no Wifference!”’ ‘ome one ought to tell them.” The lady with him gave him « sour look Well, there xould be the same name of Jones, wouldn't there?” asked Mfa~/ 4, Jarr. “And things’ do happen Jo people you know as well’ as people you don't | ‘anow, and what han that got to.do ew\th my saying that, women are more honed | jer "So would 1!” sald anather. And all watched {t hungrily. SR RICE Te | Finally a man behind notified the. woman, who gave him » contemptuous “They are not; they afe not near as honest as men, They are not arrested | glance and tastoned che pin tightly. ax often; chey are forgiven and the thing ts hushed up because they are women," | sphere, you see!" sald Mr, Jarr. Cate Chae | oHunr! sald Mra. Sarr; “you talk ae if finding « thing that's, __"T don't bellevé HIE nopeat! > By F. G. Long {SAG Pars; Ther Lists haye been bree i a ply. ‘ t I wan to Gnd that pin,” #aid another woman back of the Jarra, “1d keep and “Not a woman would tell her,” frost wae dis- 2 to detect ce tran ndent of In- Lilllan Devereux Blake Says eel Should Wear Light Wrappers L FINO THE MOTHER-IN-LAW the -District should be prompt! York as Di E af this county supplinted by a ma irke is doing Y (Tae STUCK SUP THING Sanday C1 (Te the Eattor Gant romecing 7 closing of all cone amusement on Sun: poked to be foes nt arem to the poor people. They pe fweek and they ar the, ttle ‘pleasure th: day. Will other ri thatr opinions on’ this s Wants to Twathe Ealtor of The yer Tam @ young 1 age. and am five “height. 1 would height about one two Inches. How Atiany oo vor'gan Kive you « course of exerci tmtanded to Incroars iho het damaten, > Be the Editor of Tie Evening World Xam a young man and!wikh to co te Jamaloa, Britinn Wext; Indiex If amy of your readers have been there Thewiah they could’ give ma Informa: | Qian to whather there ix nny’ chance ® young man ox far aa work Aphers and Tobnacea free ut th be much » day SAME AS A LADY. NY THING SOME STREET GOWNS. g FOR MEN .¢: {THAVENY F . Seventh aver Hunde RATIONAL Costume in @encerned ond what ure the bext open- © ana wou expert reader periuruance, UARBERT PLS SAME 010 EXCUSE December. 1 1 '|geé from the White House! I ‘There was Tessie Higget that kept booka for} NO, 22.—WAR OF 1$12,—Part Vi., Victory in North;, Defeats A in’South.! HE year 1814 marked the ebb tide of Atmetica’s® fortunes. \Oer me tlorfal capital, Washington, was captured by the:enomy, the ‘White | House burned and Presjdent Madison a tugitive: The London#Ttmes- |boastfully declared: ; °That !ll-organized assoctition (the Unit éd States) is oie the:eve. ona solution and the world Is speedily to be delivered of the inischtevous exemr (ple of.a government founded on democratic rebellion?’ | England having now no other war on her band (Napoleon belng p' jdown), had sent thousanis of picked xeterans to this country Britiab flee jagain ravaged the Chesapeake’s shores and tightened the blockade of ther [const Phe Greek Indiaws, whom Andrew Jackson had so severely pant! j!shed, rose again {n arms and Joined the enemy. Admiral Grimth: conquered. . |and-took possession of the. State of Maine in the name of King George. & jsduadron of sixty British warshins sailed up the Chestyeake (overwhelmei ,” jing a ttle flees sent against them by’ Commodore Barfiey) and landed 500 jsoldiers under-Gen. Koss, ‘Ross marched on Washington. At Bladensburg= an-Am@rican force 3,000 strong. opposed their advance on Aug. 24, but were put to rout after a stubborn fight, and the ‘victorious British bore dowa, upon the defenseless capital, President Madison, his fumily and his Cabinet |fled in terror from-the city. The President of the United States was a Teter: b: | j ‘ x fo. 4 { t Ross and his redcoats ‘poured into Washington, looted and plundered te. burned the Presidential Mansion, the Capitol, the Congressional Library, they: é Arsenal, the’ Treasury Bullding and many prit: Tae @ Yate houses, It seemed that America could nos Washington. Captured; { suffer such degradation and survive. The wholes President in Flight. nation was dumfounded with horror. Thef , London Times's boast appeared on the eve of ter rible fulfilment. Ross, reinforced, followed upti his victory by marching northward with §,000 men toward Baltimore. At British fleet at the same time sailed up the Patapsco to co-operate with him by capturing Fort McHenry. But every American in the ‘viclnity wht [was Strong enough to handle a rifle rushed to join the smal! jarmy ralsed by Gen. Stricker to res him. It was-the spirit of Hng into new life, as It has eve » hour of the nation’s direst nee This gallant little host (consisting of a s of regulars, militiamen, fa: jers, townsfolk, old, white-bearded grandfathers and half-grown oolboys: ‘hurled itself furiously upon the advancing British forces. In the fight Ge [Ross was killed. His second in command, Col. Brooke, drove back th | Americans and pushed on towird-Baltimore. But he neven reached hi ‘destination. Not only did the Americans heroically contest every step of his: march, but the fleet on which he had relled for support failed to captures. jFort McHenry. The fort was bombarded all day and all night, but on th | tollowing morning Old Glory still floated deflantly from the ‘stronghold’ | walls, and the British-fleet and army were forced to fall back to the coast. z | Francis Scott Key, a Baltimore youth, who was prisoner aboard a Brit.” ish warship, watched the bombardment of Fort McHenry from the mano | war's deck. ‘When, on the dawn of the second day, he saw the old flag scl Apne, the sight so thrilled him that he éommemoraved {t in a deathless Poem |The Star Spangled Banner.” 1 While all the foregoing disasters were piling up in the South a ‘somes! jwhat different drama was enacted further North. Sir James Yeo had. itured Oswego, May,5, but Gens. Scott and Ripley had crossed the Canadlamh |border, capturjng Fort Erle and routing a large British detachment at Chip-® |pewa. Gen. Drummond with a force one-thind larger than that of the invade Jing Americans met Scott and Ripley in battle at Lundy's Lane, near Bridge j water, on July 26. After one of the bloodiest battles for its ize on Tecor®.: the Americans were victorious. But they lost S58 men, which they couke' much less afford to spare than could the British th own loss of 87@. Druminond, faijing At Lundy's Lane, ried next\to wre rt Erie from the’ |Americans and was again defeated, But the Yankees. fearing they couk®! {not hold out against another assault, burned the\fori und retreated acrom: \the border back into: Néw York. The invasion had trought them @ tew ‘costly victories, but had been barron of any actual’ or permanent gain few Jour country. With 14,000 of the seasoned veterans|of the'Napolconic wars Gen. Pre |vost swept down from Canada in August, raiding New York State. He at tacked Plattsbi. 5 by land and water, but a small ! © American army and smaller nmval squadron pus ) Five-Day Battle That § him to flight after a fvedny battle, gcattering © Ended in British Rout. } the British land fo: acd cmpturing or sink « Ing*the whole British tget. Prevost (with a loss - of) 2,500 men to the Americans’ 121) tled north — ward demoralized. The veterans who had conquered the great Napoleon's } world famous legions had been thrashed Uke raw miflitia by the desplse@ soldiers of young Ameriea. Yet these successes In the, North) when stripped of the hajo of glory. en@ ; |her . merely Meant that ‘our troops had made one more! unsuccessful | invasion of Canadm and had checked another British inyasfon of New York. Whereas, in the South and nearly everywhere else Englaud ciumphanty - held the situation in her own hands. It seatned only a question of time bafore ocr country must meld. i Then, in the black moinent of national déspalr, came the lascind grea cet explelt of the whole war. This Is a Real Brain-Twister. By the Senior Wrangler. OE ran a half mile in 3’ minutes, Uncle promised him 80-cents for every. three seconds he could clip off the record, When Joc next ran ho went @%) per cent. faster, and Uncle paid up. Joe investedoall this money and made ; “oer cent, Later on he invested 60 per cent. of his capital andjagain made 6@ © per cent, on the investment. The third and fourth timer he Invested all his cap-* {tal and each time he lost 60 per cent. Joe next invested his capital in a gold ring, but later on pawnedl it for # per. cent. Jess than {ts value. He then nold the ticket for 4 per cent. amore than he recetved ou the ring. He now pald $2.4 for oranges at 4 cents each, Bananas werey50 per cent. lees, and pears were 6 per cent. more in value, so Joe. spem 30 per cent. more bor Dananas and 50 per cent./less for pears than for the oranges. At anotber atand oranges were b cents each and Joe bought 31 worth, Here leo bananaf were 0 per cent. less and pears 60 per cent, more in yalue, eo he bought 6 per cent. more of bacanas and & per cent. lesa of pears than of \@ranges, ’ Tam unable to figure St out, but\those who know say that: Joe nad mere money to spend and that he invested the remainder in applea at 218-4 cents etch. However this may be. I_know that he old all his fruit-at 6 cents each. Joe was just one-half mile from the bank and he desided to deposit his money, | Owing to! the weight of oF colng he could not go fast, tut Fan as bewt be could, °° and found when he came to the dank that # fiad taken him 60 per‘cent. longer ” to run thé half-mile than when he made the recon} run for hls uncle’s money, * On thia trip, however, he dropped a dime for every sccondsof/time he. ran, How much did he deposit in the bank? . . ’ Christmas Don'ts. By Orison Swett Marden. ON’T leave the cost mark on presents: Don'P let money dominate your Christmas giving. Don't let Chrietmas giving deteriorste Irfto a trade. jon't embarrass yourseif by xiving more than you-tan afford i Don't try to pay debts or return oblikations in your Christmas g1\..., owe n't give trashy things, Many an attle could tell strange stories about ~ Chriatman presents / i Don't make presents which r triends will nof know what to do with aa@ which would merely encumber the home, Don't give presents becaarse ‘othery expect you to. (Hye because you love If you cannot send your heart with the gift keep the gift. | “Don't decide to abstain from giving Just. because you cannot afford cexpeneive presents. The thoughtfulness of yourrgift, the Interest you take in those to ct whonilyou give, are the principal things. ‘The intrinsic walue of your sift sounta’ very Nttle. : Don't sive things became they are cheap and make a big show for the money. Asn rule St ten dangerous thing to piok up a lot of ali sorts of thinxs at bargain sales for Christmas presents. . 1f you do there 1s alwayestho tenpta- tion to make:(nappropriate sifts,—Suecess Magnaine The Songs of the Church. By Eva Booth. | heard rome onz—spenk ef writing a hissory of the sonee et ‘ Ch. eli) Kya Pooths ot the Salvatlec Arms. Shut at ie imporaibic, Yon can write the hiethry Of real men, of battle, of nations, but-yoi cannot write he history of ‘lust As 1 Ama i *Rock of Ages’ ov ‘Nearer, My God. to Thee There are heark |) Ttnrobs, norrows and spiritiial oxniiaiion In the Sompoxifion of ench that dete ¢ . | description. © ; Marahar al the books ef tiie warden Sountless sumier oonle a -pies p of ieratire that reaches to the heavens, ahd on fon of all von wil And “Rgek of Agen, Clatt for Me History telix ue that with the exception of only end + [other teok—our Biie—that hymn haw tiavellad gear cere lands and inte 4 "bomen thon at ottag Warners: that Uneympei hen preteens.

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